Word Parts - gamo, gam, gamy, gamous

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gamo-, gam-, -gamy, -gamous: From Greek marriage, union, wedding, pertaining to sexual union

agamous - unmarried; anilojuvenogamy - marriage between an older woman and a much younger man; gamophobia - abnormal fear of marriage; polygynous - marriage of a man to more than two women at the same time; misogamous - hatred of or aversion to marriage; polyandrist - marriage of a woman to several (more than two) men at the same time;

autogamy - self-fertilization; digamist- one who marries a second time.

And for you:
anisogamy, monogamy, cenogamy, pentagamist, syngamy, bigamous, gamic, tetragamy, nomogamosis, opsigamous.

Source: English-Word Information, Word Info About English Vocabulary